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A new study has discovered that US students achieve better results in reading and mathematics tests when they stay in elementary school for grades six (age 11-12) and seven (age 12-13), rather than transfer to middle school. Läs mer [EurekAlert!]

Intervju med Cecilia Kilhamn, lektor i matematikdidaktik som tillsammans med kollegor vid Göteborgs universitet har skrivit boken Matematiska samtal i klassrummet. Vägar till elevers lärande. Läs mer [Göteborgs Universitet]

Mathematicians often describe arguments as “beautiful” or “dull,” and famous scientists have claimed that mathematical beauty is a guide toward the truth. Do laypeople, like mathematicians and scientists, experience mathematics aesthetically? Three studies suggest that they do. Läs mer [ScienceDirect] samt ScienceDaily.

Hot on the heels of the ground-breaking ’Sum-Of-Three-Cubes’ solution for the number 33, a team led by the University of Bristol and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has solved the final piece of the famous 65-year-old maths puzzle with an answer for the most elusive number of all – 42. The original problem, set in

Anmäl din skola till Skolornas Matematiktävling 2019 senast onsdag den 18 september! Det är därför hög tid att anmäla just din skola till tävlingen som varje år inspirerar mängder av gymnasieelever att utforska matematikens fantastiska värld. Skolornas matematiktävling är en tävling i matematisk problemlösning för gymnasielever. Tävlingen har arrangerats varje år sedan 1961 av Svenska

Bokrecension Susan Moore Johnson has spent a lifetime studying teachers in their workplaces. In her new book, Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success, she helps us understand more about how context matters. To emphasize the central importance of the environment of schools for teachers, when the research team “compared schools demographically similar, we found

A new report from the Oklahoma Department of Education confirmed that that state has lost 30,000 teachers in the past six years, a significant number in a state that employs a total of only 41,000 teachers. Response to teacher flight in Oklahoma, as in other states, has focused on finding warm bodies to fill classrooms,

A beautiful landscape painting, a beautiful piano sonata — art and music are almost exclusively described in terms of aesthetics, but what about math? Beyond useful or brilliant, can an abstract idea be considered beautiful? Yes, actually — and not just by mathematicians, reports a new study in Cognition. Läs mer [EurekAlert!]